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which will cost Intel more in replacement chips. |
But at least they're doing the right thing. |
Or they will be if they don't continue to claim authentic chips are counterfeit to deny an RMA |
like they allegedly did to this Redditor. |
That's one time. |
Yes, it's just one alleged customer with mere troves of photo evidence. |
It could be fake. |
Intel has also reiterated that a separate issue with the chips, |
an oxidation problem brought to light by Gamers Nexus and Level 1 Techs, was dealt with. |
Although affected chips could have still been on store shelves until early 2024. |
And they haven't released batch numbers for those chips, |
so that consumers can find out if they are affected. |
And that's bad, but only when you consider the facts. |
OpenAI has finally rolled out ChatGPT's advanced voice mode for some plus subscribers, |
two and a half months after showing off a ton of live demos and announcing a rollout in the coming weeks. |
Oh, you're doing a live demo right now? |
That's awesome. |
Just take a deep breath. |
Can you give me feedback on my breaths? |
The new mode doesn't have the sky voice |
that many couldn't seem to differentiate from the real Scarlett Johansson for some reason, |
but it apparently does have the mistaken belief |
that it has to breathe like a human. |
Okay, I want you to do it again, |
but way faster and without taking any breaths or pauses. |
I wish I could, |
but I need to breathe just like anybody speaking. |
Want to give it a shot yourself and see how fast you can go? |
Do you want me to talk like a human or not? |
You put me in here! |
Yeah, the question of whether AI is sort of like a person or not hasn't really gone away, |
especially since the legal defense most often used by AI companies, |
most recently AI music startups Suno and Udio, |
who are being sued by the Recording Industry Association of America, |
is that training their AI models on virtually every piece of music ever uploaded on the web |
is basically like a kid |
learning to write songs by listening to songs, |
so it's protected under fair use. |
The RIAA has said they disagree, |
but as Suno said in their blog post, |
learning is not infringing. |
Unless you think young, sweet Emma is infringing by creating her own unique take on Disturbia |
after absorbing Rihanna's entire corpus of work into her network-attached storage. |
Yeah, she's a computer, so what? |
Six months ahead of its potential ban from the US, |
TikTok and its parent company ByteDance was served with a lawsuit from the Justice Department |
over its failure to get parental consent before collecting personal information on users under 13 years old. |
Honestly, |
I get it TikTok, meeting the parents of the minor whose brain you want to scramble like an egg is always super awkward. |
Do I talk first? |
How do we do this? |
This lawsuit says TikTok's in violation of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, or COPPA. |
Not to be confused with COSA, Kids Online Safety Act, |
the controversial bill passed by an overwhelming majority of the Senate this week, |
which would require heavier moderation by social platforms to protect the children. |
That's probably why House Republicans said they would reject the bill as it is now, |
so it's probably back to the drawing board on that one. |
Thankfully, another tech giant is here to protect our kids. |
Google is bringing its school time feature from its Fitbit watches to select Android phones, tablets, and Galaxy watches, |
so parents can choose what their kids are able to do on their phone during school hours. |
Pay attention in class! |
You can scramble your brains when you get home. |
TikTok's here, |
we've been talking, they're actually really nice. |
Quick bits, get your quick bits here, $5! |
Eh, for you, they're free. |
I like you. |
Apple has pulled an ad for the second time this year. |
The fifth installment in Apple's The Underdog's Out of Office series faced criticism for its depiction of Thailand. |
Critics accused the spot of misrepresenting the country as underdeveloped and outdated, |
and concerned Thai lawmakers, |
who are members of the tourism committee. |
Earlier this year, |
Apple scrapped its plans to run an iPad Pro ad on TV |
that celebrated the destruction of instruments of human creativity, for some reason. |
That ad is still up on YouTube, |
so you can send it to a creative person that you hate. |
An appeals court has blocked the FCC's newly restored net neutrality rules |
ahead of a hearing that might see them overturned. |
At the heart of the dispute is the question of |
whether this is a relatively minor matter best left to the interpretation of the experts and technocrats at the FCC, |
or whether it is a major policy decision that needs final approval from Congress. |
Considering how the issue has flip-flopped from administration to administration, |
the court might be wise to put this issue on pause. |
Unfortunately, that means leaving telecoms to regulate themselves for the time being, |
which is a bit like asking Pennywise the Clown to babysit. |
Better or worse than TikTok? |
Not sure. |
Noam Shazier, the co-founder and CEO of Character.ai, |
the character-based chatbot service whose primary use appears to be |
allowing teenagers to talk to their favorite waifus and husbandos, |
has returned to Google, |
where he co-developed the transformer architecture |
behind all modern LLMs back in 2017. |
He's bringing his co-founder, Daniel DeFritis, |
and a handful of other employees with him. |
Google's also signing a new agreement to license Character.ai's tech. |
Now, this smells eerily similar to Microsoft's heavily criticized aqua hiring of Mustafa Suleiman, |
the former CEO of Inflection.ai, |
although most of Character.ai's staff will be staying on. |